Dear Friends, It is really good time to congrats Dr. Haravu and his technical team for their efforts. I am agreed the words of Dr. I.R.N. Goudar regarding the technicalities of the software. Prof ARD & his team given momentum and made term Open Source Software is very simple. Many of us have experimented on many OSS like Dspace,Greenstone,Eprint, Khoa. Now, time has come for NewGenLib. May i request to Dr Haravu to take initiative to conduct some of training program on NewGenLib in India. This will help us to understand the technicalities of NewGenLib its basic requirements. I suggest that INFLIBNET, DELNET, SALIS or other agency should take initiative to conduct the training program with help of Dr Haravu. I am ready to take the initiative to organize a training program on NewGenLib at my university with all best possible infrastructure and facilities. With regards, Dr. Sanjay Kataria Librarian Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) India-201307 Ph. +91 9810503341 E-mail: sanjay.kataria@jiit.ac.in, skataria.jiitu@gmail.com ----- Original Message ---- From: Rajan <rajankila@hotmail.com> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:06:59 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Furthering NewGenLib Dear All, We got yet another excellent open software with all possible standards and hitherto un-available fulltext linking. This is the right time to think ways of intertwining it with our daily professional practices in some more libraries. As Dr Goudar pointed out, we need to think of evolving strategies to promote it by building up the capacity of a group of IT friendly professionals in learning, handling ,developing simple documentation and helping others to use the software in their libraries. Many excellent and easily usable pieces of software fail to root well in our profession, mainly because of the failure or deficiency in delivering the content of training in a simple and incremental manner to suit the new adult learners. Creation of simple manuals and giving training in a simple,cohesive and modular manner is essential. Any software is very easy to use, if someone help you know the proper sequence of choosing the option. If the proper sequence is not taught, using any simple software is a difficult task. So we need to design our training and promotion policy on thie NewGenLib software strategically, in a context where IT enabled libraries are envisaged far more than earlier by all, including the knowledge commission. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India ------------------------------ Original Message: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:02 +0530 (IST) From: "I.R.N.Goudar" <goudar@css.nal.res.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] NewGenLib-What next? Dear Professionals, Great news! NewGenLib, library automation software has become open source software. This welcome development raises many questions: a. What would be the role of Mr. Haravu and his colleagues now onwards? b. Who would support the further development of NewGenLib? c. Who would give the support for installation, customization and porting the whole data if one would like to migrate to this software? d. What about the libraries who have baought NewGenLib earlier? etc Initially we should hold one day brain storming round table meeting of selected 15-20 top level Indian librarians in the country who have successfully automated their libraries in a big way and few LIS Faculty along with Dr. Haravu and his technical team. I request Dr. ARD Prasad of DRTC to take a lead in this matter. Dr. I.R.N. Goudar -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.